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Mountain Meadows Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Mountain Meadows Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$88k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$725kArts & Culture$238kHealth$11kHuman Services$10kInternational$6kCivil Rights$3kRecreation & Sports$2kEnvironment$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Saint Ann's School$57,500
The Film Collaborative Inc$25,000
The Ireland Funds America$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HARVARD COLLEGE FUND: $10k → 8%The Ireland Funds America: $6k → 16%HERO'S JOURNEY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $20k → 14%THE EAGLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $225k → 20%GRASSROOTS SOCCER: $1k → 10%HARVARD COLLEGE FUND: $10k → 8%HERO'S JOURNEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $20k → 14%THE EAGLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $108k → 20%BUCKINGHAM BROWN & NICHOLS: $5k → 8%POMONA COLLEGE: $20k → 14%GLUCKMANS IRELAND HOUSE: $2k → 17%Saint Ann's School: $58k → 20%BUCKINGHAM BROWN & NICHOLS: $5k → 8%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $15k → 14%WNYC: $30k → 17%SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $50k → 20%BUCKINGHAM BROWN & NICHOLS: $3k → 8%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $10k → 14%WNYC: $30k → 17%SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $50k → 20%BUCKINGHAM BROWN & NICHOLS: $3k → 8%POMONA COLLEGE: $10k → 14%WNYC: $30k → 17%SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $25k → 20%BUCKINGHAM BROWN & NICHOLS: $2k → 8%POMONA COLLEGE: $10k → 14%WNYC: $30k → 17%SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $25k → 20%POMONA COLLEGE: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE: $3k → 17%SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $10k → 20%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE: $2k → 17%SAINT ANN'S WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $8k → 20%POMONA COLLEGE: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE: $2k → 17%SAINT ANN'S WAREHOUSE: $8k → 20%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $30k → 14%SAINT ANN'S WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $4k → 20%The Film Collaborative Inc: $25k → 14%SAINT ANN'S WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $4k → 20%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $20k → 14%SAINT ANN'S WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $4k → 20%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$968k · 11 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -72% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$968k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
-72%

Still filing today

91%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $550k · revenue +36%
  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +18%
  • SC
    Scripps College
    5× · 2018–2023 · $75k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • SA
    SAINT ANN'S WAREHOUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • UC
    UCSF CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • TR
    THE RUCKUS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -72%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
2
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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3
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Lycee Francais De New York

"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…

Education
7
National Geographic Society

To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
10
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
11
Ithaca College

Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.

Education
12
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Traditional Music and Dance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $550,000 · EducationSAINT ANN'S SCHOOLScripps College: $75,000 · EducationScripps CollegePOMONA COLLEGE: $55,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGE+3 more: $20,000 · EducationNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $120,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIOTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $20,500 · Arts & CultureST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC+1 more: $7,000 · Arts & CultureHARVARD COLLEGE FUND: $20,000 · OtherSAINT ANN'S WAREHOUSE: $7,500 · OtherThe Eagle Academy Foundation Inc: $7,500 · OtherTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $5,500 · OtherUCSF CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherGLUCKMANS IRELAND HOUSE: $2,000 · Other+3 more: $1,750 · OtherHERO'S JOURNEY FOUNDATION: $5,700 · HealthGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$700,000Arts & Culture$237,500Other$49,250Health$5,700Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $550,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetScripps College: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eagle Academy Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Traditional Music and Dance Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHERO'S JOURNEY FOUNDATION: $5,700 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSPIRIT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Mountain Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…Vanguard Charitable E…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…
Jewish Communal FundNY13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mountain Meadows Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mountain Meadows Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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